FeedBurner Is Google's Biggest Screw-Up To Date — No wonder FeedBurner cofounder Dick Costolo left Google. After the search giant bought his RSS startup FeedBurner in 2007 — for a reported $100 million — it has since squandered it. — The idea was that by merging FeedBurner's neat RSS tools …

Customers Angered as iPhones Overload AT&T — Slim and sleek as it is, the iPhone is really the Hummer of cellphones. — It's a data guzzler. Owners use them like minicomputers, which they are, and use them a lot. Not only do iPhone owners download applications, stream music and videos …

YouTube in Talks to Stream Rental Movies — Google Inc.'s YouTube is in discussions with major movie studios about allowing users to stream movies on a rental basis, according to people familiar with the company's plans, marking one of the video giant's first moves towards charging …

RSS Is Dead, So Is The RSS Fund — Three months ago, Steve Gillmor wrote that “it's time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter.” Sam Diaz piled on last week, calling RSS a Web 1.0 application whose time has passed. And things got even worse today, when news leaked …

Google Patents World's Simplest Home Page — After a five-and-a-half-year fight, Google and its attorneys have managed to convince federal bureaucrats to bestow a patent on the company's iconic home page. We always thought the page was brain-dead simple, but apparently it's an innovative “graphical user interface.”

Want 5,000 More Facebook Friends? That'll Be $654.30 — USocial Will Sell You Followers and Friends — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — If you're a Gmail user who also happens to use Twitter, it's probably been about five minutes since you've seen an ad promising to boost your follower count.

OnLive Opens the Beta Program — Hey there... It's been a very busy and productive few months for OnLive. We've been focused on evolving the OnLive technology, installing lots of servers in our data centers and tuning the OnLive® Game Service based on feedback from our internal Beta testers.

Then and Now, Seven Years of Blogging as Business — When Nick Denton launched the proto gadget blog Gizmodo in August 2002, it arrived on scene to a milieu of early web confusion. Until then, blogs were low traffic outlets for personal thought-flinging to be visited by friends …

Review: Duracell Instant Chargers Are...Pretty Perfect? — We've all seen those mini cellphone rechargers at airports, but Duracell has released a line of rechargeable pocket chargers that can refill any USB-compatible device (like iPhones) through compatibility with your own adapters.

Palm: Pre Sales To Whiff Targets? — Is the Palm (PALM) Pre a bust? — Town Hall Investment Research analyst David Eller asserted in a research note this morning that sales of the Pre “are continuing to slow,” and “likely will come in dramatically below” Sprint's (S) reputed target of 1 million to 1.5 million customers for the year.

The bar for success in our industry is too low — This weekend the New York Times published a piece called Using ‘Free’ to Turn a Profit. The piece focused on Evernote, a web-based and smart-phone based application for taking notes, snapping pictures, and storing stuff you want to remember later.

Apple to offer ready-made ringtones — Apple has obtained the rights to offer ready-made ringtones for the iPhone and managers are trying to have them available in time for next week's press conference, music industry sources told CNET News. — Owners of Apple's iPhone have long had the ability …

Bing Leads in Successful Canadian Searches — A couple of weeks ago we posted data on the success rate of Canadian searches, noting in particular that only 30% of Canadian Internet searches are “successful”. A couple of readers asked us to share success rate by search engine.

Microsoft pushes for single global patent system — A senior lawyer at Microsoft is calling for the creation of a global patent system to make it easier and faster for corporations to enforce their intellectual property rights around the world. — In a blog posting on Tuesday …

Facebook Connect expands beyond iPhone to mobile web — Facebook Connect is continuing its march across multiple mobile platforms as the company endeavors to make itself the primary identification system for the web. — The company announced Facebook Connect for the mobile web today …

Tapulous Taps User-Generated Content To Hype New Fox Flick — 20th Century Fox is partnering with Tapulous, the iPhone-app maker known for its popular Tap Tap Revenge game, to publicize the launch of its upcoming movie “Jennifer's Body,” a high school thriller, featuring Meagan Fox and Amanda Seyfried.

Happy 10th birthday, Blogger — Much has changed since Blogger was released in August of 1999. Writing about Blogger's founding in his book Say Everything, Scott Rosenberg describes the effect of Blogger simply: “It cleared the obstacles from the path between brain and Web page.”